Mr. Speaker, rest assured there will be an amendment for a community reinvestment act. There is no reason why we could not do what a number of American states are doing and require a bank to invest a certain amount of their portfolio in the region or the state or the area from where they get their funds from the ordinary people, which would lead to economic development in the particular area. It is called the community reinvestment act.
I do not know why it has not been done before. Maybe it is because the banks are big contributors to the Liberal Party. They are putting a lot of money into its campaign fund. I also notice that it is not just the Liberal Party any more. I noticed that the new leader of the Alliance, that Fred Flintstone on rollerblades, is having a fundraiser in Toronto very soon. They are charging $25,000 a table. Those tables will be bought by wealthy bankers, wealthy business executives and CEOs. That shows that the Reform Party, now the Alliance, has lost touch with its grassroots.
It is for those reasons that we do not have a community reinvestment act. The bankers contribute to the funds of the Liberal Party, and now the Alliance Party. They try to govern in the interests of the big bankers and the wealthy in this country. Imagine that, $25,000 a table. I can hardly believe what I read this morning in the Globe and Mail .